Re: Erratic mouse

[Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>]

on Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:00:18AM +0100, marTin insinuated:
> check that you configured PS/2 on /dev/psaux. 

i hadn't.  now i did (just manually edited /etc/X11/XF86Config ; was
that the right way?), and the mouse is great.  but i have no idea why
it helped -- what does /dev/psaux have to do with /dev/mouse, which
appears just to be /dev/gpmdata?  and why should i have specified *it*
instead of /dev/gpmdata?  why would specifying the latter cause it to
fuck up as it did?

> if that doesn't work,
> try ImPS/2, same port. 

rather, this is what i meant:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"

should that be PS/2 for any reason?  it's working as is, and also
works with that line as "PS/2".  

</nori>

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